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▸ noun: (now historical) An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
▸ noun: A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient.
▸ noun: A person who accepts stolen goods.
▸ noun: A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
▸ noun: (American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
▸ noun: (racquet sports) A person who attempts to return the serve.
▸ noun: An item or apparatus that receives.
▸ noun: Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle.
▸ noun: (chemistry) A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases.
▸ noun: (now chiefly historical) An airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum.
▸ noun: (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action.
▸ noun: (now historical) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.
▸ noun: Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such.
▸ noun: The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece.
▸ noun: (finance) A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the floating leg and receive the fixed leg.
Similar:
recipient,
liquidator,
pass catcher,
receiving system,
telephone receiver,
transmitter,
sender,
giver,
repeater,
superheterodyne,
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Types:
satellite,
cable,
terrestrial,
wireless,
satellite radio,
cable television,
wireless receiver,
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